Motivational Quotes

Success

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

- Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

Best Quotes about Success

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.